Great Backyard Bird Count this weekend (non-FF)

I suspect many of us spend time watching the birds out our windows and on the stream. Here is your chance to help with collecting info on those birds. The Great Backyard Bird Count is this coming weekend. If you can spare 15 minutes or more to see what is coming to your feeder, or is in the bushes along the river, or floating on the back bay of the lake, and can take a minute or two to enter that data on the computer, your help will be greatly appreciated. Last year almost a hundred thousand checklists were entered, totaling more than 11 million birds of 600 species.

And no, you still can't tie flies with those pretty feathers.

For details, visit http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/

Thanks in advance.

Dennis
Trout bum / birder

(takes off his Audubon hat and puts the fishy one back on)

I have been doing this for years. It's easy and a real help to scientist. This 4 day event bring tons of data no group of scientist can collect alone. You don't have to count all 4 days.

I am quite sure I could afford better fishing tackle and eat better if I had not gotten my wife turned on to feeding the birds. I am sure she will want to play along and I will enter the data for her. It looks like a great weekend to count birds in GA, I am thinking of trying to count some fish instead.

At this moment 2-cardinals, 1 carolina wren; 1-junco; 1-sparrow; 1 chickadee; 1 mourning dove; from my office window.

The 3 of us are located east, west and central USA, it would be interesting to me to do a tally from each of our viewing area, ie. I will show you mine if you will show me yours.

I left for work an hour early on Friday so I could hit one of my favorite spots on the Potomac River, looking for a big waterfowl score. Didn't get the variety I was hoping for but saw a bunch of buffleheads and a good number of hooded mergansers; also a number of yellow-bellied sapsuckers and brown creepers on the trail along the river. The backyard count had the usual suspects - cardinals, blue jays, juncos, finches (house and gold), chicadees, titmouse (mice?), wrens, etc. So far today, we've had a sharp-shin hawk, too.

Regards,
Scott

My feeders are full I will spend the morning tomorrow with a check list. What do we count squirrels as??

:mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by steveks

What do we count squirrels as??

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Stewmeat, winging & dubbing material ;-)

Regards,
Scott

So far, the feeder has been overwhelmed by evening grosbeaks. In return for about two gallons of black oil sunflower today, I got grosbeaks. Lots of grosbeaks. At one point when something spooked the birds up into the treetops for a minute, I ran out back and counted against the stormy sky... 119 of them.

I count again at the office feeder tomorrow and Monday. Will throw up the list when I consolidate the days.

http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/k...P1100506lc.jpg

Not much happening at my feeders this morning, finally saw why. CAT!!! I hate cats.

As of today the following counts I have for my yard:

33 Chestnut-backed Chickadees,
1 Nuttail's Woodpecker,
9 House Sparrows,
8 Mourning Doves,
2 California Towhees,
7 Anna's Hummingbirds,
3 House Finches,
1 Oak Titmouse,
3 Pine Siskins, and
1 Western Scrub-jay

I hit two spots away from home, and found lots of waterfowl and a few rarities, but most of my time was in town. I counted at my office, which has feeders, suet, peanut butter, a creek, a park, lots of trees, and all the comforts of home for birds. I put in an hour or two each of the four days there, with the following results: Interesting what comes and goes with weather and whims.


Eurasian collared-dove 5,2,4,2
Downy woodpecker 3,2,2,2
Northern flicker 1,1,0,1
black-billed magpie 2,0,0,2
American crow 0,1,2,21
black-capped chickadee 0,1,0,0
mountain chickadee 2,1,1,1
white-breasted nuthatch 2,1,2,1
brown creeper 1,1,1,1 (the photo in a previous post)
robin 1,1,0,0
starling 6,1,0,5
cedar waxwing 6,0,0,0
spotted towhee 0,0,1,1
song sparrow 1,1,0,0
dark-eyed junco 31,12,20,10
Cassin's finch 3,5,1,1
house finch 12,7,6,6
pine siskin 8,18,14,10
American goldfinch 6,14,5,28
evening grosbeak 38,119,14,13
house sparrow 9,7,7,4

I routinely post bird photos, including a few taken this weekend, at photobucket.com/paoniabirds